Floodwaters that closed the New York Thruway and undermined a culvert on I-88 -- killing two truckers on June 28 -- disrupted truck traffic across the northeast, said William Joyce, president of the New York Motor Trucking Association.

This morning a Maine shipper, Kris-Way Truck Leasing, was trying to track down a missing driver, Joyce said. One of the trucks damaged on I-88 was swept away and there is concern that this missing driver could have been involved in this incident, Joyce said.

The closure of I-90 in the Mohawk valley disrupted shipments across the region, Joyce said. Shippers trying to get into and out of New England have to go through New York, he said.

Within the state, trucking companies were looking at all kinds of alternative routes. A shipper in Syracuse, for example, sending cargo to Utica was planning on sending his trucks up I-81 to Watertown and then south on State Route 12 to Utica since they could not go directly east on I-90, Joyce said. The company was taking that route to avoid Route 5, which was filled with traffic that otherwise would have been on the Thruway, he said.

He's been getting calls from all over the country from shippers trying to find out what the route closure situation is in the state, Joyce said.